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certain respects, the retirees were cut in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt: they tried to further his mission to protect public land not for pristine wilderness but for the benefit of future generations. The principle of conservation has a longer history in Pennsylvania than almost anywhere else in America. The nineteenth-century movement arose out of
... See moreEliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
“More importantly, recreation is often a precursor to traditional, and much more ecologically destructive mineral extraction. It is a politically salient justification for obliterating competing claims to land but becomes a flimsy shield in the face of ever-occurring energy and resource crises.“
Marketing the Wilderness, Joseph Whitson
John Todd, the venerable systems ecologist best known for his work on environmental remediation. In 1969 Todd founded the New Alchemy Institute and began to design microecosystems, self-contained plant communities inside greenhouses. Using them as small-scale prototypes for larger real-world projects, he revolutionized how we approach solving
... See moreDickson Despommier • The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
Dubose took the stand and testified about what he and other employees called “the Koch Method.” As he later described it, “They were just mis-measuring crude oil from the Indian reservations as they did all over the U.S. If you bought crude, you’d shorten the gauge. They’d show you how. They had meters in the field. They’d recalibrate them, so if
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
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At eighteen, in a dream, he saw himself plodding through jungles, chinning up the ledges of cliffs, wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams. The peculiar thing about Everett Ruess was that he went out and did the things he dreamed about, not simply for a
... See moreJon Krakauer • Into the Wild
Environmental historian Traci Brynne Voyles describes the entanglement between sacrificial bodies and sacrificial landscapes as “wastelanding”—the processes via which white colonial wealth is dependent on constructing some landscapes and peoples as pollutable, with all the injuries, illnesses, and deaths that follow.
Sunaura Taylor • Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
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